Word: regimen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone with high cholesterol is a good candidate for drug therapy. Otherwise healthy people over the age of 70, a group of experts recently concluded, are not likely to benefit from a rigorous cholesterol-lowering regimen. But for people at high risk of dying from heart disease -- especially the 1.5 million Americans who will suffer heart attacks this year -- the new cholesterol-loweri ng drugs may mean the difference between life and death...
Unhappy with this regimen, Peter finds a covert ally in Katarina, a girl two classes ahead of him who has lost both her parents over the past year and grown understandably rebellious as a result. And then Peter is given responsibility for August, a new arrival who has murdered both his parents. "He is chaos," Katarina says, wondering why August has been admitted. "If their plan is order, why have they taken...
Making a test-tube baby is a test of human endurance -- especially for the would-be mother. To start the process of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), she must submit to a two-week regimen of daily drug injections. They prepare her ovaries and cause perhaps half a dozen eggs to mature simultaneously, but the shots can also produce pain, bloating and sharp mood swings. Every day she undergoes tedious blood tests and ultrasound examinations: the doctors need to monitor the ovaries closely and remove the eggs at just the right time so they can be fertilized...
This year, though, the violins have stopped. The team has tried to drown whatever memories of last year's misfortune with hard summer training and a rugged pre-season workout regimen...
...Panetta too. He has a ferocious temper that has been known to reduce aides to tears when balls are dropped or questions go unanswered. He insists on punctuality, and, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, once required all staff members to clock in and out -- an unheard- of regimen on Capitol Hill. "He wanted an honest day's work out of us," said a longtime aide. Another OMB official admitted last week that Panetta's criticism can be so withering that she sometimes takes "the long way around" the rectangular corridor of the Old Executive Office Building rather than...